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UNIT
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VALUES AND
INTEGRITY
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Values
Expressing Your Values in Your Social and Academic Life:
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Value System
Values and integrity
■ Academic integrity
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What are values, and how do they relate to integrity? A value is an attitude or belief
that is important to you. They are an integral part of you and govern your thoughts,
feelings and behavior. Things that are important to you may not be as important to
others. Others may also not share your beliefs. An example of this would be your feelings about war, poverty, corporal punishment or abortion. If you were to have conversations with your classmates about these topics, you would find vastly different opinions.
Where do these values come from? We begin developing values at an early age from
our parents or caregivers. As we age, our values may change as we have new experiences
and meet new people.
So, again, what do values have to do with integrity? A synonym for integrity is honesty. Is honesty a value? It certainly reflects a person’s moral or ethical character. A person’s moral and ethical character is governed by their values.
As you work through this unit you will have opportunities to explore your values
and how they relate to your education. We will also examine integrity and the part it
plays in academics. What is cheating? Take a few minutes and complete the exercise on
the next page.
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CHEATING?
Place a check beside each item that you feel constitutes cheating.
______1. Not admitting to your correct weight on your driver’s license application.
______2. “Surfing” the internet at work on company time.
______3. A classmate copied the correct answers for a History test. You have the same test coming up you decide to use the answers.
______4. Taking home office supplies (pens, pencils, paper......) from work for personal use.
______5. Having an extra marital affair.
______6. Submitting an essay as yours, that you “borrowed” from someone else.
______7. Driving 65 miles per hour in a 45 mile zone.
______8. You are given too much money in change at the drive-through window of a fast food restaurant, and decide to keep it.
______9. You have been academically suspended from college. You apply to another college, but fail to
disclose that you have ever attended college anywhere else.
______10. You are required to work 40 hours per week for which you are paid a salary. You are not required to “clock” in or out. You leave 10 minutes early every day.
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Chattanooga State Technical
Community College
Academic Dishonesty & Code of Conduct
Part I: Guiding Principles
Commitment
“Chattanooga State is committed to . . . maintaining an environment of learning
where high academic standards as well as academic and personal integrity are
prized.” (Statement of Mission, p. 44, 2004-06 college catalog)
Definition
Academic Integrity is a mode of conduct based on an individual and institutional
commitment to the principles of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and
responsibility, to be realized through
◆ Honest and ethical conduct in all activities relating to the life of the College
◆ Truthful, complete, and accurate representation of all personal and academic
information
◆ Integrity of products of the academic process, such as tests, essays, research papers, laboratory reports, and any other class of course-related preparations produced by individuals or explicitly specified as group assignments
◆ Universal application of the principles of Academic Integrity throughout the
institution.
Roles and Responsibilities:
To promote academic integrity throughout Chattanooga State, faculty will:
◆ Practice and model the values of honesty, trust, respect, fairness, and responsibility.
◆ Communicate, in writing, Academic Integrity expectations to the students.
◆ Inform students of the requirements of each course, and the behavior expected
of students to fulfill those requirements. Instructors will communicate the assignment parameters for collaboration, citation, and resource use.
◆ Provide guidance for homework assignments, tests, reports, and individual and
group projects.
◆ Cooperate with responsible College personnel in preventing, detecting, reporting, and providing evidence relative to any forms of cheating, plagiarism, deliberate misstatement or misrepresentation, or any other fraudulent activity related to academic matters, including student data and records.
To promote academic integrity throughout Chattanooga State, students will:
◆ Practice and model the values of honesty, trust, respect, fairness, and responsibility.
◆ Assume responsibility for absolute honesty in submitting all course and graderelated work.
◆ Prevent reuse or re-submission of their work by others.
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◆ Give accurate and complete information.
◆ Follow the established guidelines regarding collaboration, citation, and resource
use.
◆ Refuse to participate in activities that contribute to dishonesty by others.
◆ Assume responsibility for fairness in using college resources to complete
assignments.
◆ Follow the Student Code of Conduct.
To promote academic integrity throughout Chattanooga State, administrators
and staff will:
◆ Practice and model the values of honesty, trust, respect, fairness, and responsibility.
◆ Encourage and support an atmosphere of academic honesty.
◆ Take appropriate measures to raise the consciousness of individuals throughout
the college community to the importance of maintaining the values underlying
academic honesty.
◆ Assure that the materials, presentations, and relationships of the College reflect
the College’s commitment to the ideals of integrity, academic honesty, trust,
respect, fairness, and responsibility.
◆ Support the efforts of faculty and staff to identify academic integrity violations
and administer appropriate sanctions.
Part II: Addressing Violations of Academic Integrity
Examples of Academic Integrity Violations—including but not limited to the
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Unauthorized assistance on assignments or exams
Falsification of data
Unauthorized collaboration on exams or class assignments
Plagiarism (includes copying/pasting from Internet sources and use of paper
mills or any other similar source)
Use of direct quotations or key ideas without proper citation
Submitting the work of another student as student’s own
Unauthorized use of technological devices, cell phones, calculators, etc.
Unauthorized access of an instructor’s files, tests, and materials
False information on official college documents
“Academic Integrity Guidelines,” Chattanooga State intra web. 25 Apr. 2006.